[IAEP] Announcing: An off-line working copy of the Project: Sugar Creation Kit

Thomas C Gilliard satellit at bendbroadband.com
Sat Dec 31 23:35:50 EST 2011


This works well;

Have nice new-year..

Tom Gilliard
satellit_ on #sugar IRC

Link: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SCK-USB.iso


*This is an '''offline '''working copy of the Project: '''Sugar Creation 
Kit'''
:A set of Annotated screen shots as .html files with the accompanying 
folder containing the files for the .html
*Intended to be used, when there is no internet connection, by 
students/teachers on the XO-1; XO-1.5

*CAUTION MANY OF THE LINKS ON THESE WIKI PAGES MAY NOT WORK OFF-LINE.
:(All will work if you have a Internet Connection)
:'''This Version works correctly from a USB-stick'''
:'''The USB-stick should be fat 16/32 and labelled "SCK" (In CAPS)'''
:copy/paste the contents of the CD  to this USB-Stick

*Follow the '''Blue Bar Links''' to Go Directly to the other pages of 
the tutorial
:'''links marked with  *  in front also work correctly'''
*Hit the Browser <== (back) arrow if you need to return to the previous page

*IF You have NO INTERNET connection and are running from a CD:
:GO TO Directories (1-4) to see the required.html web pages in firefox
:Use firefox File/open: search for .html to open each one.

*Contents:
:'''5 levels of .html files from the Sugar Creation Kit wiki page of 
sugarlabs.org'''
:0-)Sugar Creation Kit Page
::SCK_USB_ReadMeFirst.txt
::firefox-6.xo - (see Installation below)
:::Drag-Drop install this Browser if you are running sugar-desktop; or 
Soas; XO-1 XO-1.5.
::'''This Browser is required to fully view these .html pages'''
:1-) Direct links from the (0) top level .html page
:2-) Community Distribution Pages
:3-) Sweets and Sweets Distribution
:4-) Sugar Network

*Uses:
:Intended to be run from a 2nd USB (or CD) where there is NO Internet 
Connection Available.
:A usefull set of wiki pages that teach the basic operations of the 
Sugar-desktop
:"sneakernet" with no internet connection ;behind firewall at school. 
Save bandwidth on servers.
:'''Download once and distribute copies locally.'''

*Problem with Browse and Surf-115 in SoaS and the XO-1
:These browsers will not open the accompanying folder containing the 
files for the .html.
:This results in a web page with no links or .png screenshots
:Firefox-6.xo does not use or have sugar-journal access.
:This means XO-1 security should not be compromised.

*Installation - This .iso is intended to be burned to a CD
:The CD can be used directly (But the blue bar links and * links will 
not work)
:copy/paste the contents of the CD to a USB-Stick
:The USB should be fat 16/32 and labelled "SCK" (In CAPS)
:This is necessary for the links in the Blue Bars to work correctly
*Insert the SCK-USB stick in your XO-1 USB slot
:Drag drop the Firefox-6.xo file from the 2nd USB-stick to the Journal  
- Install it

*To Open Files in Firefox-6.xo
:Click on the firefox icon in (f3) Home screen
:(firefox top menu:) File/open file: Select the required .html file on 
the  USB labeled "SCK-USB"
:Click on the Sugar_Creation_Kit.html.file to start

* Firefox-6.xo installed from this USB-stick has been successfully 
tested viewing the .html web pages on the USB-stick.
     a G1G1 XO-1 running os508dx - (Dextrose2)
     XO-1.5 running os874 - (sugar 0.92.1)
     a ACER ASPIRE ONE N450 Netbook - (Trisquel-5-Sugar) Live CD - NO 
Internet Connection
     a ACER ASPIRE ONE N450 Netbook - (f16-SoaS-Pineapple) Live CD - NO 
Internet Connection
     a MacBookPro i7 booted into OSX and running firefox for OSX ; 
Firefox-6.xo NOT used.
     VirualBox 4.1 for OSX with install of Sugar 0.95.1 in Mageia 
release 2 (no other browser works on this Distro)



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